Inadvertent (Why I Write)
2.990 kr.The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard
“Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinking and preconceived notions that inhibit awareness of our lives. Knausgaard writes to “erode [his] own notions about the world. . . . It is one thing to know something, another to write about it.” The key to enhanced living is the ability to hit upon something inadvertently, to regard it from a position of defenselessness and unknowing. A deeply personal meditation, Inadvertent is a cogent and accessible guide to the creative process of one of our most prolific and ingenious artists.
Íslenskar bókmenntir: Saga og samhengi
4.990 kr.Íslenskar bókmenntir: saga og samhengi er tveggja binda verk um sögu íslenskra bókmennta frá upphafi Íslandsbyggðar til vorra daga. Þar er sagan rakin á knappan hátt í samhengi við strauma og stefnur hvers tíma og er sú umfjöllun grundvölluð á rannsóknum seinustu áratuga.
Höfundar efnis:
Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir
Ármann Jakobsson
Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir
Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson
Margrét Eggertsdóttir
Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson
The Site of Memory
2.990 kr.The Site of Memory describes Toni Morrison’s work of literary archaeology. She offers insights into how she arrives at a text through the act of imagination bound up with memory and shows how she explores two worlds – the actual and the possible – via the nimbus of emotion surrounding the journey of an image: from picture to meaning to text.
Exploring the radical possibilities of literature and the limits of history, Morrison finds a truth deeper than documentation in the silences and omissions in African American narratives of the past. Fiction, for Morrison, is a practice of ethical restoration: a means to recover what history has neglected through the ‘flooding’ of a rush of imagination. In The Site of Memory, ancestral presence, emotion and imagination converge. If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
Undir Hraundranga: Úrval ritgerða um Jónas Hallgrímsson
1.990 kr.Undir Hraundranga er úrval ritgerða um Jónas Hallgrímsson frá 19. öld til nútímans. Hér er að finna fjölbreytt skrif um ævi og örlög Jónasar, um vísindastörf hans og hugmyndaheim, um áhrifavalda og umhverfi hans. Fjallað er um mörg áhugaverðustu verk skáldsins og tekist á um túlkun þeirra. Elstu ritgerðirnar eru eftir Konráð Gíslason og Hannes Hafstein og hinar yngstu eru frá allra síðustu árum. Auk núlifandi fræðimanna og skálda eiga margir þekktir höfundar frá 20. öld efni í bókinni. Meðal þeirra eru Einar Ól. Sveinsson, Halldór Laxness, Jakob Benediktsson, Kristinn E. Andrésson, Sigurður Nordal og Svava Jakobsdóttir. Bókin er gefin út í tilefni af því að tvær aldir eru liðnar frá fæðingu Jónasar. Ritstjóri er Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson sem einnig ritar inngang.
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
990 kr.A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.
Són 23 (2025)
5.390 kr.Ársritið SÓN birtir greinar á sviði ljóðlistar og skáldskaparfræða, ný ljóð og ritdóma. Sónarskáldið 2025 er Kristín Ómarsdóttir. Þetta hefti hverfist að miklu leyti um samtímaljóðlist en varpar líka ljósi samtímans á eldri ljóðlist. Þannig sinnir tímaritið hlutverki sínu, hugar að liðnum tímum en líka ólgu dagsins, lesið meira:
Í heftinu er að finna ítarlega grein, SKURÐPUNKTUR SKÖPUNAR, þar sem rýnt er í hlutskipti íslenskra ljóðskálda nú á dögum og hugað að þeim breytingum sem hafa átt sér stað í útgáfu ljóðabóka á Íslandi síðustu áratugina. Fjallað er sérstaklega viðamikla sjálfsútgáfu íslenskra ljóðskálda. Greinin er góður upptaktur að þeim fjölda umsagna um ljóðabækur sem eru í þessu hefti og hafa aldrei verið fleiri. Fjallað er um 44 ljóðabækur, þar af 36 frumsamdar, sex ljóðaþýðingar og tvö ljóðasöfn.
Auk Sónarskáldsins, Kristínar Ómarsdóttur, birta sex önnur íslensk samtímaskáld ljóð í heftinu og einnig birtist íslensk þýðing á mögnuðu ádrepuljóði Emily Gorcensky sem fangar vel þá undarlegu tíma sem við lifum á.
Ein ritrýnd grein er í SÓN að þessu sinni og er hún um margt óvenjuleg því hún er afrakstur samvinnu á milli umhverfistónskálds og bókmenntafræðings og kallast ÞEGAR FYRIRBÆRI FLÆÐA. Greininni mætti lýsa sem fræðilegum hugleiðingum sem sprottnar eru af hendingunni „Í jöklinum hljóða dauðadjúpar sprungur“ í Sofðu, unga ástin mín. Hendingin verður höfundum kveikja hugleiðinga sem tengjast jöklum, ekki síst hopun þeirra og loftslagsbreytingum.
Þá er í heftinu merkilegt fræðslukvæði í rímnabúningi frá nítjándu öld. Kvæðið er eftir Jón Bergsted og kallast FÆÐINGARHJÁLPIN en þar er lýst í 114 erindum getnaði, meðgöngu, fæðingu og fæðingarhjálp.
Ritstjóri tímaritsins er Soffía Auður Birgisdóttir og hægt er að gerast áskrifandi hjá henni á soffiab@hi.is. Áskrift kostar 5000 kr. Að baki útgáfu tímaritsins stendur óðfræðifélagið BOÐN og eru ljóðaunnendur hvattir til að leggja tímaritinu lið með áskrift.
On Writing
3.690 kr.Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King – with a new foreword, ON JOY, by Stephen King.
Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.
King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 – and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it – fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
5.990 kr.When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own.
Le Guin’s maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach-like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always Coming Home. Rather than remaining within known terrain, they open up paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map’s edges and how a map is read, made and re-made, together. The Word for World brings her maps together with poems, stories, interviews, recipes and essays by contributors from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between worlds and the imagination and representation of them.
With contributions by Federico Campagna, Theo Downes-Le Guin, Daniel Heath Justice, Bhanu Kapil, Canisia Lubrin, Una McCormack, David Naimon, Nisha Ramayya, Shoshone Collective, Standard Deviation, Marilyn Strathern. Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025.
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
4.390 kr.From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying Life of Adults, and The Lost Daughter, come four revelatory pieces offering rare insight into the author’s formation as a writer and life as a reader. Ferrante warns us of the perils of “bad language”―historically alien to the truth of women―and advocates for a collective fusion of female talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of her most beloved authors. A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Ferrante’s writing has been described as compulsive (The Times) and astonishing (Guardian), her novels have sold millions and been translated into many languages as well as adapted for TV internationally.
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
3.990 kr.Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that ”Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,” meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what are the ways in which we can disentangle literary translation from its roots in imperial violence? 24 writers and translators from across the world share their ideas and practices for disrupting and decolonising translation.
”For the past few years, I”ve written and rewritten this line in journals and proposals: literary translation is a tool to make more vivid the relationships between Afro-descendent people in the Americas and around the world.”
– Layla Benitez James